REFUGEES: Innocents' Day

Peace had come to battered, impoverished
Greece; the Communist guerrillas had been driven out, perhaps for good.
But last week, on Innocents' Day (the Church calendar's anniversary of
Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents in Judea), Greece had a day of
mourningfor 28,000 children abducted by the bandits and now living on
foreign, Communist soil.

A two-gun salute from Mount Lycabettus woke Athenians at dawn. Church
bells tolled and flags drooped at half-mast. Newspapers appeared with
black-framed front pages. Places of amusement were closed all day, and
for half an hour all traffic stopped, streets emptied, doors were
closed and blinds drawn.